Show COM i E A CATCHER SAYS CONNIE CONNI MAC TO YOUNG YON PAY PLAYERS I Famous Manager Says Good Gooc Backstops Command Fat Salaries Connie Mack than Mack than whom th there re is n no wiser club owner manager or observe in baseball said baseball said not long lonz ago o The Tho best advice ie I T can give ie a young man who aspires to make himself a areat great reat name on t the be diamond is ib tico and study catching Become a second Buck Ewing Ewin There is pra- pra no limit to the salary aldr that a aman aman man the tho equal of Lou Cri Criger er or of Roger Hog flog or er Bresnahan when hen these two tw catchers catcher were at their best could command to to- da day dav Every ball player every overy fan and every cry club owner knows knos that Connie Connie- who was once a a. first lust class catcher himself him him- self self self-is is right ht The rho demand for backstops hack back stops o of tho the Gibson Criger Carrigan stamp i is vastly vastl greater than it is for great reat pitchers hard hitters or fast fielders infinitely greater reater in fad fael than is the tho supply Sin Singularly enough b it is is only b hy by cycles or by decodes decades ono one might almost t say that star catchers arc me developed In truth so seldom doeS doc it occur that when wilen wilena a Clarke an or 91 a i Gib Ou appears appears ap ape ap- ap pears in the baseball l sky tho the who whole hole countr country sits mis up tip and gives C attention Malor Jea league league- lIo scouts unite in saying that only a i small percentage of young youn men aspiring l to tu places on nn tho the major majo league UC clubs today are trvin trying to ge get t jobs johs as ns catchers This is hard bard to explain cx ex plain inasmuch as tS tho the great rc t catchers o of I past fully as important a place pineo in iu baseball history as aM do the Had bournes tho the Clarksons and the l I m i Some Famous Famous Catchers I Indeed no names iu in all tho the annals annal of baseball ur ar ur mow moio familiar than are ro of oC Bu Buck Buck k Charley Chancy Tim McGuire MeGuire Duke Farrell l Jack Jack H Boyle Chancy Ganzel Lou Mou Lou Criger ri er Charlie Charlie Z Zim m. m timer mer Jick 0 Connor OConnor Tom rom Tom Daly u Doc Doe BIhon Wilbert Robinson on Dick y Sm Snyder cr U Calliope Calliope Millet Miller John Clement Emil d Gross Gros- Mike Kelly Silver Flint Vincent a 1 Xava Nava Jim Jim 1 White Whito ant and Cal Mcvey 1 Th Tile They were werl among anong lit lIlt Jno not most t famous ack that hat have ever mer stood behind bohinc the plate Tho Those o who Ia saw them tieni in action ac ac- ac tion cling tenaciously Co 0 o the time belief thano that tha no better catchers will nil ever be seen scon on the tho diamond if HU the tho major league 3 club owners art arc asking these old backstops backstop top many mauj of 01 them handed kire could afford to tko take the tho risk in in the days when the canto came at them on the hop skit skip and arid jump ium jump p. p |